Phase I IUCRC at The Ohio State University: Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations

这个网站的目的是创建一个更全面的，量化的了解，在职业环境中的肌肉骨骼疾病(MSD)的发展的因果路径，这是已知的复杂和多因素。从本现场进行的研究中获得的知识将导致确定更有效地调解伤害风险和伤害严重程度的干预措施。之所以需要这个网站，是因为MSD不仅是造成工作时间损失的主要原因和全球残疾的主要原因，而且目前对许多类型的MSD的治疗通常是困难的或不成功的。这个网站将是破坏性肌肉骨骼创新中心(CDMI)的补充，CDMI是为了开发干预措施而创建的，可以开发出更具成本效益的治疗方法。然而，众所周知，预防MSD远比治疗更具成本效益。因此，该网站将产生的干预概念将应用于职业工作场所设计、医疗保健服务、运动医学、军事和服务业。此外，更好地了解MSD的因果路径将改善创新治疗的基础，并作为CDMI目前正在进行的研究的有益补充。该网站建议解决肌肉骨骼疾病(MSD)的影响及其对受伤员工、公司和美国医疗行业造成的巨大负担。它在现有的IUCRC框架内将是独一无二的，因为它主要侧重于MSD的预防工作，而不是伤害后的治疗。MSD继续给我们的社会带来负担，因为它们的原因是多因素的、复杂的，而且往往鲜为人知。因此，这个网站有三个技术重点，每一个都旨在提高我们对与工作相关的MSD如何发展的理解，以便应用这些知识有助于预防或降低MSD发生率。首先，我们的网站将应用工程技术来量化和表征MSD的因果路径，并利用这一知识对该路径进行干预，从而通过员工和产品消费者接触到的工作场所和设备设计来防止或减少MSD风险。其次，我们将进行必要的研究，以改进现有工具，或创造新的工具，以提高MSD风险评估的敏感性和特异性。第三，我们将使用这种方法来更好地了解受伤员工何时以及如何重返工作场所，从而将他们再次发生MSD的风险降至最低。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The purpose of this Site is to create a more comprehensive, quantitative understanding of causal pathways for the development of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the occupational environment, which are known to be complex and multi-factorial. Knowledge gained from research performed at this Site will lead to the identification of interventions that will more effectively mediate injury risk and injury severity. This Site is needed because, not only are MSDs a major cause of lost work time and the leading cause of disability worldwide, but current treatments for many types of MSDs often are difficult or unsuccessful. This Site will be an addition to the Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations (CDMI), which was created to develop interventions that could develop more cost-effective treatments. However, it has been well established that MSD prevention is far more cost effective than treatment. Thus, the intervention concepts to be generated by this Site will have applications to occupational workplace designs, healthcare delivery, sports medicine, the military, and the service industry. In addition, a better understanding of causal pathways to MSDs will improve the bases for innovative treatments and serve as a useful complement to the research currently being conducted by the CDMI.This Site proposes to address the impact of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and the large burden they impose on injured employees, companies, and the U.S. healthcare industry. It will be unique within the existing IUCRC framework, since it focuses primarily on MSD prevention efforts as opposed to post-injury treatments. MSDs continue to burden our society because their causes are multi-factorial, complex, and often poorly understood. Thus, this Site has three technical focuses, each of which is aimed to improve our understanding of how work-related MSDs develop, so that the application of this knowledge can help to prevent or reduce MSD rates. First, our Site will apply engineering techniques to quantify and characterize MSD causal pathways and use this knowledge to intervene in the pathway, thereby preventing or decreasing MSD risks through workplace and equipment designs to which employees and product consumers are exposed. Second, we will conduct needed research to improve existing tools, or create new tools, which improve the sensitivity and specificity of MSD risk assessments. Third, we will use this approach to better understand when and how to return injured employees to the workplace so as to minimize their risk of an MSD recurrence.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.